San Francisco, CA – Jan 13, 2016 – NodeSource, the Enterprise Node Company™, today announced the latest release of N|Solid™, the enterprise-grade Node.js platform, providing increased visibility into Node.js applications running at scale.
Monitoring Node.js applications is straightforward when managing a small number of processes across a few hosts, but can become unwieldy in larger environments. At the same time, simple command-line tools and graphs aren’t optimal for finding performance outliers, or drilling down to find relevant data in environments with hundreds of processes and hosts.
N|Solid complements existing enterprise application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, providing granular, high-frequency views of Node applications, as well as the underlying runtime and host. Users can assign multiple user-defined tags to every process, which then can be used as filters in the N|Solid Console Cluster view to help triage performance issues. Users also can tag processes with additional identifiers relating to an application’s role, hosting environment, development or production area, or any attribute that might aid rapid identification.
In addition, processes can be filtered by hostname, process title and process ID (PID) to easily create a subset of processes from a much larger environment, greatly shortening process selection time. A unique Cluster view provides a live scatterplot of CPU and memory utilization across application services, enabling visual identification of individual process outliers. Once identified, application profile data is only a few clicks away.
"Our enterprise clients have told us they are surprised by how quickly they are able to gain insight into their application’s performance using the N|Solid Console,” said Chip Ray, vice president of product management at NodeSource. “Understanding the challenges they face running Node in production for business-critical applications, we have developed a solution that meets and exceeds their needs for monitoring Node at scale.”
Broad availability of metrics and ease of access is critical for managing production environments. N|Solid v1.2 integrates with StatsD, making it easy to add N|Solid process and system metrics to existing monitoring dashboards, and report on all applications and processes. No individual process configuration is required. This provides deeper context for teams managing large environments with less effort.
N|Solid is free for Development use. Try it today.
About NodeSource:
NodeSource is a technology company dedicated to delivering enterprise-grade software products in support of a sustainable ecosystem for the open source Node project. We aim to drive and expand the Node.js ecosystem by providing best of breed solutions that specifically target the needs of the enterprise. Clients include PayPal, NASA, Intuit, Uber, and other progressive Node adopters who are leading the charge in microservices via server-side JavaScript instead of just maintaining legacy monolithic applications like Java. NodeSource is venture backed by Crosslink Capital (Eric Chin) and Resolute.vc (Raanan Bar-Cohen and Michael Hirshland). For more information visit www.nodesource.com and follow @nodesource.